When I was little I remember my parents taking me to London at Christmas time to see the lights and the Christmas windows. I seem to remember Hamley’s and Harrods had particularly wonderful displays of snow scenes and animated snowmen etc. It was magical. But we don’t have to go to London. Van Won-deren Flowers […]
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by Sue Munson My current work is inspired by the faded grandeur of ancient buildings. The layers of peeling paint, fractured walls, and colour recall a time and beauty that once was, when beautiful paintings graced the walls of church-es, and domestic dwellings. My contemporary interpretation of these frescoes is revealed in paintings which are
After 36 years, Twirltour Travel may have closed its rather interesting office doors at 101 Green Street, but Managing Director Richard Stanier says, “This time for change is a result of the devas-tating affect the pandemic has had on the travel industry. For the first time, I look forward to serv-ing my longstanding and loyal
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By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face throughout the school year. Over the past few weeks, we have been look-ing at different schools as our middle daugh-ter is now in year 11. She is
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By Monica Chard We have always championed the Spelthorne in Bloom initiative. Gardens give so much pleasure, brighten our borough and the bene-fits all round for mental health and well being is well documented. Our Sunbury champion has long been Leslie Grimes whose hanging baskets in his front garden in Manor Lane are something to
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We are blessed locally with a great choice of theatres to visit. Kingston is only a stone’s throw away and we have immensely enjoyed visiting the fabulous Rose Theatre a couple of times recently. Leopards, an original production, was greeted with great enthusiasm. This new play by the award winning producer of Fleabag was a
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The long lockdown and frustrating pause in activity within the hospitality industry, has been time put to good use at the Holiday Inn, Shepperton. The venue has undergone an ex-tensive refurbishment. Alongside it sits now Storyboard at Shepperton, a new aspirational and contemporary events destination, setting the scene for weddings, celebrations and meetings up to
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Proposed Development of Phase 2, Benwell House Refused by Planning Committee Despite the officer’s recommendation to approve this plan, the Planning Committee on 13th October voted against the construction of the 5 storey block of 39 flats as the Second phase of the Benwell House development in Green Street, pictured below. (Artist impres-sions are always
By Inspector Maxine Cilia The crime of this month is theft from motor vehicles. It is still so surprising how many people leave their cars on their drives un-locked. What is more surprising is that they also leave their car full of valuable items such as expensive sun-glasses, mobile phones and satnavs, cash, even wallets
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The Sunbury ferry has had a fantastic first year and has had more than 6000 passengers. What a boon for the area. This electric craft runs at weekends only from a specially made pontoon down the passage opposite the Riverside Arts Centre and takes you over to the Walton bank. There you can walk along
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by Bill Cunningham 159 Anything that counteracts scamming is wel-come. And now we have a new tool to use, allowing us to check if a call from our bank really is a call from our bank. In the last year over £500m was scammed in bank transfer fraud. Less than half of that was refunded
By Nick Pollard With the former police station in Staines Road East, Sunbury, being converted into flats, I thought it would be an opportune moment to look at the history of policing in Sunbury. The photo shows the staff of 5 sergeants and 2 acting sergeants (with two stripes) surrounded by 18 constables in front
Mike Bodnar investigates the rise of doorbell cameras Ding-dong! It’s a sound that makes us drop everything and head to the front door to see who it is. We don’t know of course until we open it, or at least that’s the way it used to be. Today we can see who’s there from the
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By Monica Chard Well, it’s all coming together nicely. The Lower Sunbury Business Community Christ-mas market on December 9th is proving pop-ular and stalls are almost sold out. If you want a stall please email John Carey: johncar-ey@active-edge.co.uk. There will be food, gifts, a roving Santa, the village raffle and the Salvation Army. It runs
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Protect & Survive No…not the 1970s public information campaign exhorting us to hide under a table in case of nuclear attack. This is far more useful. It’s my public information campaign about protecting tender perennials and taking cuttings to over winter so your plants survive and even multiply. First the protection: to protect tender perennials
At the end of 2019, we attended a climate change day at the River-house Barn in Walton. One of the highlights of the day was the chil-dren’s choir We Are The Voice, who performed songs written by choir leader Niamh Clune. We raved about them, saying they should go on Britain’s Got Talent. Well how
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SUNBURY REMEMBERS 2021 marks 100 years of the Royal British Legion supporting the armed forces community. It is also 100 years since the start of The Poppy Appeal. Sunbury Royal British Legion Branch together with other members from the community are working to ensure Sunbury marks Remembrance Day in the most fitting way possible given
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By Monica Chard The Spelthorne Business Competi-tion, brain child of Business Secre-tary and Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, is in it’s 7th year. We gathered at the BP learning centre in late September to hear the Drag-on Den style pitches from 6 final-ists, made to a panel of local busi-ness leaders. Once more, the stand-ard of
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With the increase in domestic violence and escalating need for shelter for the vulnerable who may be sleeping rough, Spelthorne Council have invested some of their profits from their housing portfolio to build a be-spoke shelter. The White House (which is not in fact white, nor a house!) is situated next to the new Spelthorne
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